Stomozoa australiensis Kott, 1990

Kott, Patricia, 2006, Observations on non-didemnid ascidians from Australian waters (1), Journal of Natural History 40 (3 - 4), pp. 169-234 : 183-184

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930600621601

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7222946

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Stomozoa australiensis Kott, 1990
status

 

Stomozoa australiensis Kott, 1990 View in CoL

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Stomozoa australiensis Kott 1990a, p 157 View in CoL .

Distribution

Previously recorded (see Kott 1990a): South Australia (Great Australian Bight). New records: South Australia (Kangaroo I., 4–8 m, SAM E3228 E3278 E3285 View Materials ) .

Description

Firm, cartilaginous, translucent irregularly branching stalks. Rounded heads on the terminal branches have thoraces of the semi-embedded zooids with their separately opening lobed apertures (surrounded by the characteristic dentate lobes) covered by transparent flexible test and projecting free like bubbles from the firmer test of the stalks. Zooids have a red thoracic wall when first preserved but subsequently are brownish yellow in preservative. The long oesophageal neck is very contracted in these specimens. A single large spherical larva is being incubated in the atrial cavity of specimens collected in March (SAM E3228).

Remarks

Specimens are as previously described.

SAM

South African Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Aplousobranchia

Family

Stomozoidae

Genus

Stomozoa

Loc

Stomozoa australiensis Kott, 1990

Kott, Patricia 2006
2006
Loc

Stomozoa australiensis

Kott P 1990: 157
1990
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